Japan's 'love hotels' acced of anti-gay discrimatn | Japan | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS TOKYO
• GAY FRIENDLY LOVE HOTEL? - TOKYO FOM
• JAPAN'S 'LOVE HOTELS' ACCED OF ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS TOKYO

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! Knowg about the mored homophobia we were on our bt behavr and left the room nearly spotls.

In May this year, at the height of the ronavis’s first wave, two gay men livg together Amagasaki, wtern Japan, thought they would ease the boredom of the untry’s soft lockdown wh a vis to a love hotel, where upl pay for short stays to have rather than the reee time they had anticipated, the uple, their mid-30s, did not even get as far as the door to their room. But this time the language was overtly homophobic. “Gay men don’t e the facili properly, ” the female receptnist reportedly told them, whout explanatn.

GAY FRIENDLY LOVE HOTEL? - TOKYO FOM

While Japan’s thoands of love hotels wele lns of heterosexual upl search of the privacy and timacy nied them at home, gay upl say they are routely turned away. Dpe risg awarens of LGBT rights, Japan is the only G7 untry that do not regnise same-sex marriag, and much of the untry’s multibilln-dollar love hotel dtry accepts only heterosexual Ishikawa, Japan’s first openly gay MP, timated that of 143 love hotels Tokyo’s Toshima ward, where he began his reer as an assembly member, 30 refed entry to same-sex expectatn that they will be rejected means many gay men have e to regard love hotels as off-lims, acrdg to one member of Tokyo’s LGBT muny, who told the Guardian: “Nothg dampens the prospect of a romantic eveng out more than a homophobic hotel policy. ”Akira Nishiyama, assistant executive director of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislatn, said hotel rejectns of same-sex upl were mon, even though is illegal unr a 2018 revisn to the hotel bs law, which stat that hotels “should not reject guts on the basis of their sexual orientatn or genr inty” the rare ocsns that ctomers report a hotel for homophobia, thori simply offer the proprietors “admistrative guidance” – a measure mpaigners say lacks legal love hotels, so named after the first of their kd – Hotel Love – opened Osaka the late 1960s, origally tered to upl sperate to pe their extend fai, who tradnally lived unr one roof, for a few hours of a cle the young populatn, the rise sgle hoeholds, and the pre-panmic boost ternatnal tourism have prompted many to unrgo image makeovers to appeal to travellers, cludg sgle guts lookg for paratively cheap and fortable a rult, the number of hotels wh an overtly sexual theme has dwdled to ls than 10, 000 recent years, pared wh around 30, 000 two s ago.

“We uld have people g om all over the world to next year’s Olympics, and if gay upl are nied entry to love hotels will not reflect well on Japan. ”Although some webs have started listg “gay-iendly” love hotels, Matsunaka said Japan’s refal to fully accept the LGBT muny, exemplified by the ban on same-sex marriag, ma homophobia socially acceptable.

“There are a few love hotels that accept same-sex upl, like the ni-chome gay district of Tokyo, but ’s very limed, ” he said.

JAPAN'S 'LOVE HOTELS' ACCED OF ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN